the fact that psychology majors don’t have a reputation as being particularly charismatic or good at relationships or even at managing people is a pretty damning indictment of either academic psychology or college or both
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TBF these are topics not even remotely like the ones covered in psychology courses
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Historical reasons? Academic psychology was behaviorism for decades, and the paradigm after that was the cognitive revolution. Neither of them are "how do you be", they're very much "how does it work"
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The more humanistic side of psychology was torn between Social Psychology (the situation matters) and Personality Psychology (the person matters).
For some reason Social Psych won and ate Personality, but again neither of them are about being charismatic or having relationships
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yeah and|but it's done in a way that privileges internal consistency and performative healing over learning how to relate to other humans from the damaged core.
being able to rationalize to yourself 'oh, i'm not damaged anymore' doesn't help if other people are still a mystery
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why would a psychology degree be a management degree, or just going to therapy?
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